Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Losing HP as you level up
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7296477" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Except that because of "Rulings Not Rules"... practically every game IS modified.</p><p></p><p>Thus forcing yourself to only "Play RAW" is still pointless. Unless you just <em>happen</em> to move to another table that just <em>happens</em> to have a DM who's also caught up in "Only Play RAW!" just as you are.</p><p></p><p>But I'm not so sure Jeremy and the rest of the guys over at WotC need to work so hard for that slimmest of chances.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And if we were talking about foundation rules of the game, then you'd possibly have a point. But we're not. We're talking about WotC wasting their time and scrapping their editorial policy just so a couple people can have it down in writing that an obscure, practically never-to-come-up situation has an "official" rule connected to it... presumably so that they can then go to another table and dictate to their new DM "Well, uh... <em>actually</em>... should one of us <em>choose</em> to play a PC with a negative CON modifier and <em>choose</em> to roll for our hit points... we can at the very least get 1 hit point when we level up even if we roll poorly."</p><p></p><p>To which the DM at the new table would most likely say "I run my game how *I* want... so you can take your Sage Advice '<em>Well, actuallys</em>' and go for a long walk off a short pier." As is his or her right to do. Because again... Rulings, Not Rules.</p><p></p><p>So rather than require every single ridiculous interpretive little thing be hammered out via errata so there's absolutely no, heck no, never in a million years, question about what every single "rule" is in the game... how about you just <em>ask</em> the DM their decision should any of these obscure niggly little things ever rear their tiny head? Crazy talk, I know... but I think WotC thinks that's better than a 25 page errata document.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7296477, member: 7006"] Except that because of "Rulings Not Rules"... practically every game IS modified. Thus forcing yourself to only "Play RAW" is still pointless. Unless you just [I]happen[/I] to move to another table that just [I]happens[/I] to have a DM who's also caught up in "Only Play RAW!" just as you are. But I'm not so sure Jeremy and the rest of the guys over at WotC need to work so hard for that slimmest of chances. And if we were talking about foundation rules of the game, then you'd possibly have a point. But we're not. We're talking about WotC wasting their time and scrapping their editorial policy just so a couple people can have it down in writing that an obscure, practically never-to-come-up situation has an "official" rule connected to it... presumably so that they can then go to another table and dictate to their new DM "Well, uh... [I]actually[/I]... should one of us [I]choose[/I] to play a PC with a negative CON modifier and [I]choose[/I] to roll for our hit points... we can at the very least get 1 hit point when we level up even if we roll poorly." To which the DM at the new table would most likely say "I run my game how *I* want... so you can take your Sage Advice '[I]Well, actuallys[/I]' and go for a long walk off a short pier." As is his or her right to do. Because again... Rulings, Not Rules. So rather than require every single ridiculous interpretive little thing be hammered out via errata so there's absolutely no, heck no, never in a million years, question about what every single "rule" is in the game... how about you just [I]ask[/I] the DM their decision should any of these obscure niggly little things ever rear their tiny head? Crazy talk, I know... but I think WotC thinks that's better than a 25 page errata document. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Losing HP as you level up
Top